My
interest in 2-butoxyethanol
started around November of 2001, when someone in my family shared they
had fatigue and depression & a host of health issues since working
on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. I saw that 2-butoxyethanol was on
the list of harmful components of Inipol that the bioremediation
workers were FOR SURE exposed to. He didn't have that info at
the time he was doing the job, however,

But on May 27, 2002
my search began in all seriousness after a reply from EPA, "If
you want more information you will have to use the Freedom of
Information Act & go to a higher authority than me."

Well, I started
spending 5 hours + a day every day from then 'til now (should have
quit a year ago, and plan to quit soon)

I talked to a lot
of the workers as they were still in the the town I live in.
What is your headache like, etc ... Oh, your joints hurt, are falling
apart? ... etc, etc

I never would have
ever given any thought to the gulf war vets as all I remembered from
the news in the early 90s was that they had health issues from their
service then. That's about it.

About 9 months
later ... I had a divine appointment. A mobile
rental (that we had brand new renters in) had frozen water pipes
(Never before ... & never since) My husband spent several
hours underneath which caused me to visit with the husband (I had only
dealt with the wife). He shared how he just got out of the
military in Oregon and he started talking about the gulf war vets and
how 150,000 had registered with the American Legion as they felt the
USA govt did something and was covering it up. That they
wondered why the spouses and children born before they were deployed
had come down with 'the syndrome' too when they came back from the
gulf war.

That peaked my
curiosity, and I looked up the symptoms of 'gulf war syndrome'

It was not until
about December, 2003 that I found 2-butoxyethanol and Diethylene
glycol monobutyl ether on the list of solvents
& pesticides the gulf war troops were exposed to *

I first started
checking out how they cleaned up the oil spill in 1991.

What were the
similarities between that oil spill cleanup and the Exxon Valdez of
1989? (Some military washed birds; a company was experimenting with
cleanup chemicals, etc)

It must have been
about Sept, 2003 to Jan 2004 that I spent all my time working with
gulf war syndrome issues on the gulf war vets forum you shared.
Gale kicked me out then. Sick 'n tired of hearing about how EGBE
did all the things they were sharing on.

Doesn't matter,
It's a bigger problem than just EVOS workers or GW Vets.

Still a problem for
civilians and military alike today ... & for most of this past
century. What puzzled me most was why doctors do not find the
fatigue of CFIDS (which I believe IS caused by 2-butoxyethanol
exposure/s ... plus
diabetes & a host of other things)

I have about 50
discussion forums of my own and go to about 300 others, so if I get
kicked off one or another, it does not matter. And I have
written hundreds and hundreds of web pages. I asked my pastor of
that time .... "This is not good news, would it be best not to
tell people?" He said, "No people would want to know
what they are dealing with ... & you never know who might find
your information and be helped by it."

If anyone has an
interest in this topic, please feel free to e-mail me as I will not be
checking too often hereafter. Which may mean I'll be dropped
from other forums (?) I have spent so much time on this that I
recognize 'the pattern' of EGBE, that's all. (Ethylene glycol
monobutyl ether is the most commonly found glycol ether of the
glycol ether chemical family)

We need to link arm in arm together with the
'gulf war syndrome' vets & the homemaker who is often harmed by
the same chemical in cleaning products, paints, etc (so that means
babies, pets ... everyone at home) very
sick

We lost 148 soldiers in '91 Gulf war ...+ 195,000 of 'the
syndrome'
We lost 58,148 in Vietnam war .... + how many of
'the syndrome?'
We lost 54,246 in Korean war ...... + how many of 'the
syndrome?'
We lost 405,399 in WWII ............ + how many of
'the syndrome?'
We lost 116,516 in WWI .......... + how
many of 'the syndrome?'
We lost 863,153 in Civil war ........ + how many of
'the syndrome?'